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EDIT:
Found this. That makes the code not suck. Pasting code into this thing is still a PAIN, as it doesn’t auto translate <>, and other evil html characters when pasting in the code block. And you can’t simply paste all your code into the visual editor, because it’ll munch off all your formatting :(
Better but not great.

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*sigh*

WordPress does almost everything well. Except pasting code. It can’t handle that #include<stdlib.h> is not an HTMLs.

So I need a blag that doesn’t suck at handling code. Searching the intertubes for source code blog doesn’t get me very far…

Well I should’ve known better than to just use Joomla! for something without doing the research on it.

As it appears, joomla has poor user control. There’s no granulation. So the website I’m working on for my corporation in Eve Online isn’t going to work in joomla. Mostly I need something simple to manage content. A Content Management System as it were. Joomla isn’t going to cut it. It’ll do for now, until I can find something else to manage the content.

My requirements aren’t horrible.

Blogging type stuff – to allow corp members, who feel so inclined to post articles about their excapades
News type stuff - to allow the corporation to post news entries for things that happen corp wide
Calendar type thinger – to allow the corporation to post events and/or due dates. I think this is probably very important because we need to be able to have deadlines posted somewhere easy for everyone to access. Helping to ensure that we don’t default on any corporation contracts.
Static Document management – To hold things like the Corporate bylaws (once I figure out how to write bylaws) and other official corporate documents
User management – I need at least the ability to moderate users to the site. And then a bit of permissions management within the site, so that not everyone can create events, post news, or muck with the corporate documents.

So the requirements for the site aren’t too strenuous, but joomla fails miserably regarding the user management. Which pretty much breaks the entire thing.

Drupal might do it, but I’ve read that drupal is quite complex. I don’t particularly want to roll my own CMS, as there’s already plenty out there, and my goal isn’t to build a CMS, the goal is to build the content, which is going to be difficult enough.

This is just wrong.

The problem here is not that this was all done in a panic. The problem is not that there are evil people. There will always be evil people. The problem is not that it doesn’t have enough oversight.

The problem is that it was done at all. This money is going to be poorly managed compared to someone’s hard earned dollars. There’s no cost to these polititcians spending this money. They don’t care how the money is spent, only that it results in their being reelected next time.

The thing is, no one even considered the consequences of this stimulus. Well, no one in the federal government.

We THE PEOPLE should be very angry. We should be making this anger known to the Federal Government. They need to know that we don’t like what they’re doing. And if you do like what they’re doing, keep in mind that there’s no such thing as a free lunch. What seems good for you right now comes at what cost to others? When does that cost come around to you?

EPA ‘Cow Tax’ Could Charge $175 per Dairy Cow to Curb Greenhouse Gases.

Yeah, lets stifle an already struggling economy by “solving” “global warming” by taxing the hell out of our staple food item.

This is probably not going to result in anything but people using more soy to make their products cheaper. This has a significant impact to me, being allergic to soy. Via this legislation we’ll end up making all of our meat products crappier. People aren’t going to want to pay more to “solve” the “global warming” “problem” (I apologize for the excessive use of quotations.) Global warming simply hasn’t been proven well enough to enough people for this to be necessary. Not to mention that there have been cows farting up a storm for a whole lot longer than the global warming thing appeared. I hardly think this tax is going to do anything for this. </rant>

Hill aides: CBO to project $1.2T deficit for 2009 – Yahoo! Finance.

That is spectacular! If my budget at home had this kind of deficit, I wouldn’t be able to eat, much less help anyone else.

The only solution to this is smaller government. A dramatic reduction of government programs is needed. Shut down vast government bureaucracies, and make it cheaper for government to operate.

This country will cease to exist with a continuing deficit like this.

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EPA ‘Cow Tax’ $175 per Dairy Cow to Curb Greenhouse Gases

$1.2T federal deficit for 2009

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